Welcome to the BabySmash! official feedback forum. Do you have an idea? Do you recognize a good idea when you see one? We want to hear from you!
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428 votes
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335 votes
Record better audio and lose the Text To Speech voice
Status: plannedIf I made it so you could record your own, would you have the patience to do all the shapes, colors and letters?
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262 votes
Discourage "smashing"
Make it only respond if a single key is pressed and not when banging the whole hand on the keyboard.
Status: plannedGood idea, I'll see if it's possible to detect multiple keypresses at the same time. What do you want it to do? BUZZ? Big "No!" or Red X?
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201 votes
internationalization
Support other languages
Status: plannedDo we need more than just internationalizing the Options Dialog? Don't we need Sounds as well? So language-specific SmashPacks?
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127 votes
ScreenSaver Mode
be able to have BabySmash listed in the Screen Savers dialogue box.
Status: plannedWorking on this...
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119 votes
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112 votes
Add live webcam support (maybe as screen background?)
My 2-year old loves BabySmash, but she also loves watching herself in the webcam on our laptop. How about combining the two? Maybe the webcam video could be lightened and used as the screen background.
Status: plannedGreat idea! I'll take a look! Like a mirror?
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55 votes
Make exit keyboard command more difficult
My 1 yr old played for the first time today and she was out of the app and opening up multiple instances of Windows Media Center in about 5 minutes. Any thought about making the keyboard command to exit the app a little more difficult or involved (i.e., adding additional keys besides just Alt-F4)?
Status: plannedOK, she hit ALT-F4 fast? My concern is that if I make exiting harder that *parents* won't be able to get out. ;) (I've had this complaint before). However, your point is well taken. What's a good keystroke? CTRL-SHIFT-ALT-F4?
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47 votes
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41 votes
create a "portable" version
I'd really love a non-installer version I can run off a USB key, so I, uh, I mean Baby can play in places where I don't have permission to install software.
Status: plannedWorking on this...
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39 votes
phonetics instead of text to speech.
instead of the voice to speech use actual phonetic sounds.
Status: plannedAre you saying like "ah" rather than a long "a" in order to encourage reading?
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29 votes
allow user selected images as shape backgrounds
allow user to select images to use for shape backgrounds. e.g. I could select pictures of our kids to display back to them as background images.
Status: plannedI like this idea...so instead of gradients, randomly select pictures from a folder?
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21 votes
Scripting Functionality to create new games from BabySmash
Make it so you can use IronRuby to script the BabySmash primitives. Then we could create ToddlerSmash and other more complex "Speak and Spell" type games via script.
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21 votes
Publish source code of BabyMEF on CodePlex
I would really appreciate it if the source code of the BabySmash edition with MEF-Support (SmashPacks!) could be published on CodePlex (or sth similar).
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17 votes
Record the baby in short bursts and play it back
Status: plannedGreat idea. When they press Space Bar, maybe?
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16 votes
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15 votes
Map the keypad numbers to real numbers.
Right now, keypad numbers show shapes
Status: plannedDoh! This is the numeric keypad? Do the regular numbers show numbers?
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9 votes
KeySmash API
You have gone to great lengths to grab every possible input via keyboard and mouse - why not package that up as a nice API that folks can use to build other apps like Teen-Smash, Geri-Smash, Spouse-Smash - but seriously - it would allow people to build nice kiosk style apps and make sure no misch... more
Status: plannedThat's totally the idea. Note the other feedback item on "Scripting Functionality." It'd be cool to be able to create other applications. I'd love to turn BabySmash into a "Speak N' Spell" where folks could write scripts to do the logic.
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8 votes
Audio/visual feedback for touch screen devices
Watching video clips of Babysmash in use and nearly all the kids touch the screen - well I have a tablet laptop, it would be great to have the screen give feedback too
Status: plannedGreat idea! Does your tablet support touchscreen or are you giving the baby a pen?
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6 votes
language
All the properties like shape names, colors, etc. could be recorded by the user.
So, language problem would be solved.
And program should be more personel.Status: planned
